To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Of course I'm jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn't the point.

Tunnel vision can kill creativity.

The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big song dedicated to them.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.